We are so excited to welcome you to our newly opened Dive Centre located on Kelaa Magu, Hulhumale’ and it’s less than a minute’s walk from the beach.
Go on exciting adventures with us and see what it’s like to breathe underwater and feel completely weightless.
No matter what you’d like to indulge yourself in while in Maldives we are here to make your vacation unforgettable!
Our centre is the first and only Bauer pure air station in hulhumale'. We ensure that our customers only breathe the purest air on their dive adventures.
Our brand new Cressi gear is handpicked by our experienced dive instructor and all of our equipment is checked and maintained regularly to ensure the safety of our customers
We are a PADI dive centre and we offer courses for beginners (Discover Scuba Diving) all the way up to professional level (Dive Master) for those of you who wish to pursue diving as a career.
We are affiliated with several water sports and excursion centres around Hulhumale’ and we can arrange a variety of activities including jet ski rides, parasailing, banana boat rides as well as island hopping trips to local islands and day trips to resorts. Please contact us so that we can help you have unforgettable experiences while here in Maldives.
We can arrange diving trips customized to fit your needs. For beginners we offer the PADI discover scuba diving course. It is a short two to four hour course where you take a class, familiarize your self with the equipment and try them out in shallow water. After we are certain that you are comfortable in the water we take you out on the boat for your very first dive.
For certified divers we can offer you courses to help you advance in your skill level starting from Open Water Diver all the way up to Dive Master, or we can also take you out on fun dives. One dive trips last about 2 hours including travel time and two tank dives would be approximately four hours long. Based on your skill level we can offer about 34 dive sites located around Kaafu Atoll.
Our course prices include your personal copy of the books as well as certification charges, dives and gear required to complete the course. Fun dive prices include all of the equipment including tanks, BCD, regulators, masks, snorkels, fins, weight belts and wetsuit tops.
For those of you who would much rather snorkel above the beautiful coral gardens of Maldives we offer snokelling trips to three different reefs. The total trip can last from two to four hours and snorkelers can swim and rest as much they would like. All gear including masks, fins, snorkels and wet suit tops are included in the price.
We welcome families and can provide daycare services. We also welcome beginners and would be able to provide you with life vests and our guides will constantly be in the water with you.
The PADI certified courses conducted by Ocean Junkies focus on providing students with a comfortable environment in which to pursue their goals of becoming responsible and certified professional divers. We understand how difficult it is to balance work and studies, which is why we provide all of our students with flexible study hours as well as course durations so that our students can make time for their courses around their working hours and not miss classes.
Self study can also be done so that students can familiarize themselves with the modules before they head to class and take part in the water sessions. We provide our students with their own set of PADI books and study materials as well as 24/7 online help.
Dive Master candidates get to experience the work first hand by going out on dives with our guests and gain valuable experience and log dives in order to complete their course.
Since we have contacts in Dive Centres across the country we also help our students to find employment and once you graduate from our centre you would always have a support system to help you throughout your career.
This is an introduction to scuba diving that beginners can take. It is not required in order to become certified as an open water diver, but if you would like to, the course serves as a way to familiarize yourself with the equipment and techniques before doing the open water course. We provide guests with their own copy of materials and at the end of the course they will receive a certificate for completion of the course. Dives are conducted both in the lagoon and out on a boat and the entire course takes about four to six hours to complete.
This is an entry-level full diver certification for scuba diving. Course fee includes all the books, materials, certification card and other necessary items to get fully certified as a PADI Open Water Diver. This is the first course to make you an independent diver and its certification is valid for a lifetime. It allows you to go down 18 meters and the course is completed in five days.
Completing PADI Advance Open Water allows you to go as deep as 30 meters. This is an introduction to specialties in diving; you do five dives with different objectives. This course takes three days to complete and requires the open water diver certification as a prerequisite. .
This is a basic Primary and Secondary Care Course, which teaches you to deal with marine life injuries and other major problems. It teaches you what you can do to someone that has been in an accident before emergency medical service personnel arrives and can takeover, such as CPR, setting up and monitoring oxygen. The course duration is one day.
A Rescue Course is by far the most enjoyable main courses out there. It teaches you how to be a safe responsible diver and how to help others in need. It also brings the EFR course into the water and can be completed in five days.
Dive Master is the first professional level in diving. The Dive Master course teaches you how to be a leader in diving and how to be an independent diver that can also help others in need. Once the course is completed a Dive Master is allowed to lead certified divers as a guide on dive sites and also can be an assistant to the instructor during courses. The Dive Master course is completed within three to four months.
We also provide with our students to choose the option of signing up for our zero to hero course which includes the certification from Open Water Diver all the way up to Dive Master with some added benefits of course discounts and the opportunity to buy their own set of Cressi gear at special student rates.
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